It is deplorable ignorance of his character

Nelly Dean, the servant who moves from Wuthering Heights to Thrushcross Grange and back again and tells the story of the Earnshaws, Lintons, and Heathcliffs to Mr. Lockwood, grew up at the Heights. She was a child there, the same age as Hindley; she was there when Heathcliff arrived and she grew up with him […]

Yes, it was ugly enough

“The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were… No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. […]